Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820 1909

by David Schuyler

The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper created a distinctly American literature, grounded in folklore and history, that contributed to the emergence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801450802
• ISBN13: 9780801450808
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.7" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher